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Ondrasik: There's Always This Year

by
John Ondrasik
/ Los Angeles Kings

Patience.

We Kings fans know it. We live it. We hate it.

Since '99 it's been a quarter century of, patience.

A few years back we were told about that Johnson kid, the Doughty phenom, and some dude named Anze. They said the days of trading prospects for declining superstars was over. We were cautiously optimistic and, of course, patient.

In April we suffered the Kopitastrophe and subsequent playoff tank to the Sharks. We forgive and forget, because we are…

To be fair, in the Lombardi era we’ve been rewarded by the P word. Those kids have panned out and for the first time in a long time we are buyers not sellers. On paper, this roster is the best bunch since our Stanley Cup was impaled on an illegal stick, (and winking goalie). Happily, patience has evaporated into expectation. This team shouldn't need a miracle.

The time is now.

Some questions:

Can one of the Jonathan’s elevate to a top 10 NHL Goalie? (Quick is close - Bernier needs more games.)